Many of the traditions that will dictate Pope Francis’s funeral date back more than 2,000 years. They are compiled in a tome more than 400-pages long called the “Ordo exsequiarum Romani pontificis” - or “Funeral Rites of the Roman Pontiff” - which includes the liturgy, music and prayers used for papal funerals over the centuries.

Papal funerals have historically been very elaborate, but the instructions set out by Francis are much simpler. He will be the first Pope in more than a century not to be buried inside the Vatican. Instead,